To post there. And send us a tweet, cspanwj. Also to keep our eye on other news this morning, including Hurricane Dorian and the latest on that. From the dallas morning news, their lead story obviously, at least five dead after more than 20 shot as gunmen targets random victims in the odessa. 20 were shot on saturday when a gunmen hijacked a postal truck and begin shooting randomly in the odessa. Odessa area of west texas. Three officers were among the shot, in stable condition according to the Texas Department of public safety. Michael gertie confirmed that authorities had fatally shot the gunmen whose name was not released. You can read more at dallas news. Com. From the local newspaper, their point of view, their editorial , to rally around the victims, we are all in shock at the senseless violence that touches our world each day and every day, german home on saturday as a gunmen shot five people to death and injured 21 in odessa. The why and the how is still not known, it will all
Pac, a democratic group, here to talk about the 2020 election. We also have with us juana summers, National Political reporter with the associated press, and alayna treene, who is the White House Reporter with axios. Mr. Cecil, let me go first and just ask you to explain who your group is, what you are, and how much money do you plan to spend in the 2020 election . And where do you plan to spend that money . We actually have two primary functions at priorities. The first is focused on politics, which may not be a particular surprise, and in particular supporting progressives and democrats running for office. In this particular election, we will focus primarily on the president ial race. We also have a nonprofit arm of priorities that is focused on how we engage in getting more people involved, particularly underrepresented people, in civic life. That includes litigation around voting rights, communicating with people of color and young people in midterm and in president ial elections t
We are back. Welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. My name is syl sobel, im a reporter for gaithersburg. Proudly supports we are pleased to bring you this fabulous event. When you see them please say thanks. Please silence all your devices. Hope youre following gbs on facebook and instagram. If you post about the festival use the dbf hashtag. Your feedback is really valuable to us. Surveys are available on our website. By committing a survey you will be entered into a drawing for a 100 visa if card. Etan thomas will be signing in the siding areas, copies of the book are on sale in the politics and prose tend. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it helps the book festival if you buy a lot of books. The more books we sell at the event the more publishers send their authors here to speak with us. Purchasing books for politics and prose help support one of the greatest independent bookstores, benefiting the local economy and local jobs. And at first glance. It ma
Welcome to our audience here and those of us joining us by livestream. We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake. In 1919, ournning program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and service to the community. We are proud to continue the tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and the philanthropic we funded, philanthropically funded free service for journalists to accurateore credible, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping up a boot camp at drake where journalists from around the country received briefings from experts on issues that will be prominent in the president ial campaign. To acknowledge and thank the provost in the front row who is herself a scientist. Also the former Washington Post science reporter and the entire team of scientists and
American people who entrust us with their sons and daughters to keep them informed of the work our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and the permit of defense civilians do every day and keep our nation safe. We have many avenues to engage with the media and todays world moving forward i intend to do these briefings to maintain an open dialogue about the departments activities. Head of phobic affairs and representatives from the joint staff will begin holding regular press briefings. My aim is to give you an overview of my first 30 days and often talk about my priorities for the department. It has been a very busy first month for the team and im very encouraged by the progress we are making. Our direction remains fixed. We are committed to the National Defense strategy, building a more lethal force, strengthening our alliance and partnerships and reforming the department for Better Business practices which i added taking care of Service Members and their families. The mbs is grounded i